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Sonntagberg path: Overall route from Maria Taferl to Sonntagberg
Hiking tour Starting from Maria Taferl
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Distance: 77,87 km
- Duration: 26:30 h
- Ascent: 2145 m elevation gain
- Descent: 1877 m elevation gain
The pilgrimage journey from the pilgrimage site Maria Taferl to Sonntagberg is easily walkable in 3 stages covering approximately 78 kilometers and takes about 26 hours.
- Starting point of the tour
- Maria Taferl
- Tour destination
- Sonntagberg
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Distance: 77,87 km
- Duration: 26:30 h
- Ascent: 2145 m elevation gain
- Descent: 1877 m elevation gain
- Fitness level required:4/6
- Overall experience:5/6
- Scenery:6/6
- Lowest point215 m
- Highest point713 m
- Stage tour
- Nice views
- With refreshment stops
Description
The Sonntagberg pilgrimage path begins at the pilgrimage church Maria Taferl. From here, follow a particularly scenic section of the Austrian Way of St. James down to Marbach, crossing the Danube at Persenbeug. Over the Hengstberg with wonderful views of the Mostviertel mountains, you reach Neustadtl. The path continues to the pilgrimage church Kollmitzberg and to Ardagger Abbey. In Zeillern, you leave the Way of St. James, which continues westward via Wallsee and Mauthausen to Linz-Pöstlingberg. The Sonntagberg path, however, turns south and leads via Aschbach to Seitenstetten Abbey. From the abbey, continue along a beautiful panoramic path to the destination, the pilgrimage basilica on Sonntagberg.
- Route description The Sonntagberg pilgrimage path begins at the pilgrimage church Maria Taferl. From here we follow a particularly scenic section of the Austrian Way of St. James down to Marbach and cross the Danube at Persenbeug. Over the Hengstberg with wonderful views of the Mostviertel mountains we reach Neustadtl. The path continues to the pilgrimage church Kollmitzberg and to Ardagger Abbey. In Zeillern, we leave the Way of St. James, which from here continues westward via Wallsee and Mauthausen to Linz-Pöstlingberg. The Sonntagberg path, however, turns south and leads via Aschbach to Seitenstetten Abbey. From the abbey, it continues along a beautiful panoramic path to our destination, the pilgrimage basilica on Sonntagberg.
- Parking Parking is available in the town center of Maria Taferl (east of the basilica).
- Getting there Maria Taferl is located in Lower Austria, halfway between Vienna and Linz, and can be reached via the West Motorway (Exit 90 - Pöchlarn). In Pöchlarn, you cross the Danube and then turn left. After Klein-Pöchlarn, turn right up the hill towards Maria Taferl.
- Public transport From Amstetten or St. Pölten, you can take the regional express to Pöchlarn, from where a postbus (NG1) goes to Maria Taferl. Stop "Maria Taferl Ortsmitte".
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Current weather on site
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Tomorrow, 12.02.2026
Light rain shower
Wind speed1,2 km/h
Mostviertel Tourismus GmbH
Töpperschloss Neubruck, Neubruck 2/10, 3270 Scheibbs
T +43/7482/20 444
info@mostviertel.at , www.mostviertel.at
Sonntagberg Pilgrimage and Pilgrimage Center
Tel.: +43 (0)7448/215 72
sonntagberg@stift-seitenstetten.at
www.sonntagberg.com
Useful maps:
ÖK 4322 Pöchlarn, ÖK 4327 Amstetten, ÖK 4328 Scheibbs,
ÖK 4203 Waidhofen, ÖK 4204 Lunz
All at scale 1:50,000 (also available in enlarged scale 1:25,000)
F&B hiking maps 052 Mostviertel (1:50,000),
Kompass hiking guide 1085 Way of St. James
Important phone numbers:
Alpine emergency call: 140, International emergency call: 112
Recommended literature:
Hiking Guide Way of St. James Austria, www.kompass.at
On the Way of St. James through Austria, www.tyrolia-verlag.at
Pilgrimage routes, www.kral-verlag.at
Sonntagberg, www.volkskulturnoe.at